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The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 10:43 pm
Reflection, Sacrifice, Charity, Abstinence! Endurance, Compassion, Courage, Wisdom! All wasted! The message lost, what a tragedy! Misplaced by fools replaced by scum!
Sin, Forgiveness! What wonderful concepts if only implemented correctly!
Recitation of these virtues what the world would have become! Wasted on the veneration of deities when the veneration should be of these virtues!
You know now what religion is, this deformed beast of Baal, but you know not what it hides in its ruin!
This is the treasure more valuable than ivory, more valuable than an earth filled with gold! Yet you would forsake it? I think not!
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 10:45 pm
Fuck off.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 10:51 pm
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 10:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2014 at 11:01 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I like to reflect on how sacrificing some poor shmuck will make all the bad things I ever did go away- poof.
(need I continue?)
I'm going to suggest something that may not have crossed your mind. Religion doesn't give us any of that. You gave all of that to religion. If it weren't for people being halfway decent at least some of the time - the world might actually look like the hellscape painted in those "virtuous" texts. Just food for thought.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm
I'm not sure I agree that sin is a wonderful concept, or that abstinence is a virtue.
There was probably more than one goal in early religion, including explaining things that people didn't yet know about. Religion has become a perverted beast, unfortunately.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:08 pm
(September 18, 2014 at 11:00 pm)Chad32 Wrote: Religion has become a perverted beast, unfortunately.
Quite so, but I believe we can still learn from it.
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2014 at 11:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So do I, actually. You know, that would be a good thread, you could approach one "virtue" from multiple religious angles and we'll see how that pans out, eh?
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:25 pm
(September 18, 2014 at 10:43 pm)Celestine Wrote: Sin, Forgiveness What wonderful concepts if only implemented correctly! How does Sin is a wonderful concept?
Because you do realize that if God wouldn't condemn anyone there would be no need for forgiveness right?
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm
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Yeah, I gotta say, if we're angling for something like sin as one of the better parts of religion, the greeks did it better. Miasma ftw!
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RE: The Original Messages of Religion
September 18, 2014 at 11:38 pm
(September 18, 2014 at 11:08 pm)Celestine Wrote: Quite so, but I believe we can still learn from it. Like? Because one does not need to be religious to know reflection, sacrifice, charity, endurance, compassion, courage nor wisdom.
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